Bring back U.S. oil! After all, people were paying them!

My Tinnitus sprung up on one fateful night, when I was maybe 13 or so years old.

Lots of fighting amidst the family that day made it hard to sleep. I tossed and turned for hours in my bed, combatting this slowly intensifying dread and restless legs (the dread would be best described as similar to the hollowness I felt after my first breakup: the type that you feel).Intermittently begged my parents for comfort, consistently ignored.

Eventually, at ~2:30AM that school night, I was sitting in the floor of my bedroom, a mess of emotions, consumed in an ouroboros of anxiety, trying to calm myself with an I-Spy book.

That’s when the ringing started.

It’s been with me ever since.

Fuckin’ weird how that happened, but yeah I wasn’t sleeping when I should have been when I succumbed to the curse.

We celebrated when Hitler died. When bad people die, it’s not a bad thing.

This is a moral roadblock that really irks me, because those in power certainly do not care who dies and who lives. If our “leaders” don’t care, why should we? It’s an inherent disadvantage to our chances at getting out of this mess and eventually doing everything we can to fix the planet and better the world for ALL of humanity.

And yes, it’s a slippery slope, I know. I would certainly prefer it to be different. But treehugging and flag-waving and chanting only do anything when your voice is acknowledged by the power structure.

E: I hope you aren’t scared off Lemmy by the opposition you have faced. Please don’t leave!

You can hate multiple things at once. I hate the individual agents and the administration. You cannot have a machine of oppression without both components; thus they are both worthy of hate.

Unless they’re unborn! There is nothing more sacred than an unborn baby. Born babies can get discarded, though.

Seriously! I cannot understate how strange that is.

I think there’s a large community of writers on Substack, but substack is kinda shoddy so…

Fuck Sydney Sweeney. There are billions of sets of tits, find some that don’t belong to a MAGA eugenicist, please.

I’ve been wanting to install Linux, but I don’t have a drive large enough to back up my windows installation.

To a point. At least we’re reading and using our brains more on these text-based sites!

He hasn’t signed off on anything yet. Analysts seem to be in almost uniform agreement that a cut will come next month, though…

Daily beast is the liberal answer to Daily Mail, in my uninformed opinion.

I don’t know how people stay “locked in” to audiobooks. My mind wanders when the text isn’t commanding my attention, and I lose the plot — ESPECIALLY if I’m doing something while I listen.

Mark my words. Zohran will neuter himself the moment he gets in office. If not immediately, a year later.

Hopefully that leads to a silver lining if/when the fascists start to steal medical records and build registries of people with mental illnesses.

Moby Dick!!! Ishmael is one of the most amazing fictitious characters I’ve ever had the pleasure of encountering.

Honorary mention to The Brothers Karamazov.

The characters are so fleshed out that you really don’t get into the books plot until you’re 200 pages in.

Consumer planning anything but Volkswagen subscription upgrade

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I want off Mr. Bones’ wild ride.

If you want to get a glimpse of the hellscape in which our adversaries are conditioned, I would urge you to peruse the MSN start page in Edge.

I’m forced to use Edge at my job. It’s honestly not bad. It even has a built in PDF editor!

However, every time my eyes glance at that start screen, my blood pressure skyrockets. It’s all blatant propaganda.

The best/worst part? THERE ARE COMMENTS…